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The current core institutions have all committed resources to SCEC4. The California Geological Survey (CGS), a long-standing
participant in SCEC, was admitted as a new core institution at the February meeting of the Board of Directors. A consortium
of California State Universities (members of the nation’s largest university system) is being formed as a “distributed” core
institution in SCEC4. The CSU initiative, led by Prof. David Bowman of CalState Fullerton, will benefit an outstanding group
of faculty and students who have contributed substantially to the SCEC research program.
Table 2. SCEC Institutions (June 1, 2011)
Core Institutions (16) Participation Institutions (58)
California Geological Survey
California Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
San Diego State University
Stanford University
U.S. Geological Survey, Golden
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park
U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Riverside
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Nevada, Reno
University of Southern California (lead)
Proposed: CalState Consortium
Appalachian State University; Arizona State University;
Berkeley Geochron Center; Boston University; Brown
University; Cal-Poly, Pomona; Cal-State, Chico; Cal-State,
Long Beach; Cal-State, Fullerton; Cal-State, Northridge; Cal-
State, San Bernardino; California Geological Survey; Carnegie
Mellon University; Case Western Reserve University; CICESE
(Mexico); Cornell University; Disaster Prevention Research
Institute, Kyoto University (Japan); ETH (Switzerland);
Georgia Tech; Institute of Earth Sciences of Academia Sinica
(Taiwan); Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
(Japan); Indiana University; Institute of Geological and
Nuclear Sciences (New Zealand); Jet Propulsion Laboratory;
Los Alamos National Laboratory; Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory; National Taiwan University (Taiwan);
National Central University (Taiwan); Ohio State University;
Oregon State University; Pennsylvania State University;
Princeton University; Purdue University; SUNY at Stony
Brook; Texas A&M University; University of Alaska;
University of Arizona; UC, Berkeley; UC, Davis; UC, Irvine;
University of British Columbia (Canada); University of
Cincinnati; University of Colorado; University of Illinois;
University of Massachusetts; University of Miami; University
of Missouri-Columbia; University of New Hampshire;
University of Oklahoma; University of Oregon; University of
Texas-El Paso; University of Utah; University of Western
Ontario (Canada); University of Wisconsin; University of
Wyoming; URS Corporation; Utah State University; Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution
Board of Directors. Under the SCEC3 by-laws, each core institution appoints one member to the Board of Directors, and two
at-large members are elected by the Board from the participating institutions. The Board is chaired by the Center Director,
who also serves as the USC representative; the Vice-Chair is Lisa Grant Ludwig. The complete Board of Directors is listed on
page ii of the meeting volume. Policies regarding the at-large members for SCEC4 will be discussed at the Board of Directors
meeting on Wednesday, and your thoughts about this representation would be valued.
Advisory Council. The SCEC4 external Advisory Council will be chaired by Dr. Jeffrey Freymueller of the University of
Alaska. The AC is charged with developing an overview of SCEC operations and advising the Director and the Board. Since
the inception of SCEC in 1991, the AC has played a major role in maintaining the vitality of the organization and helping its
leadership chart new directions. A verbatim copy of the AC’s 2010 report follows this report in the meeting volume.
Kudos go to our distinguished colleagues who are rotating off the AC Members, Dennis Mileti (emeritus professor of the
University of Colorado) and Stephen Mahin (director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center). We also
welcome Bob Lillie (Oregon State), who will be joining the AC this year.
Working Groups. The SCEC organization comprises a number of disciplinary committees, focus groups, special project teams,
and technical activity groups. These working groups have been the engines of its success. The discussions organized by the
working-group leaders at the Annual Meeting provide critical input to the SCEC planning process. The structure proposed for
SCEC4 is shown in Figure 3.
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